Failure during conversion to COFF file invalid or corrupt

Question

When I try building just a simple program into VS2010  compiling succeeds yet when I try to build the solution it gives me this error   LINK   fatal error LNK1123  failure during conversion to COFF  file invalid or corrupt   What am I doing wrong

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I had this issue after installing dotnetframework4.5.
Open path below:
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\VC\bin" ( in 64 bits machine)
or
"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\VC\bin" (in 32 bits machine)
In this path find file cvtres.exe and rename it to cvtres1.exe then compile your project again.

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If you have installed VS2012 as well  the old cvtres file will no longer work       Try removing the file  I simply renamed     C  Program Files    x86  Microsoft Visual Studio 10 0 VC BIN cvtres exe   You can also debug using the  VERBOSE linker option in order to get more information regarding the linker error   There you should see an error message that the invoke to cvtres fails

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I am using Visual Studio 2010   This happened to me when I installed  NET 4 5   Uninstall of  NET 4 5 and install of  NET 4 0 helped me and error messages disappeared

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This issue occurred after Visual Studio 2012 installation  The issue resolved by replacing the cvtres exe from VS2010 with  the one from VS2012   Thank you to  social msdn

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Do you have Visual Studio 2012 installed as well  If so  2012 stomps your 2010 IDE  possibly because of compatibility issues with  NET 4 5 and  NET 4 0   See http   social msdn microsoft com Forums da-DK vssetup thread d10adba0-e082-494a-bb16-2bfc039faa80

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I had this issue and I solved it with this thread  disable incremental linking  by going to       Project Properties         - gt  Configuration Properties             - gt  Linker  General                 - gt  Enable Incremental Linking - gt   No   INCREMENTAL NO

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Had to install VS 2010 SP1 in order to get it to work again for myself   Lame microsoft

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In my case it was just caused because there was not enough space on the disk for cvtres exe to write the files it had to   The error was preceded by this line  CVTRES   fatal error CVT1106  cannot write to file

[visual-c++] Failure during conversion to COFF: file invalid or corrupt

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